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Republicans and K-12 school leaders clash over handling of antisemitism

Republicans and K-12 school leaders clash over handling of antisemitism

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David Banks, chancellor of New York City Public Schools, testified at a House Education Committee hearing on antisemitism on Wednesday. He was joined by Karla Silvestre, president of the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland, Emerson Sykes, staff attorney with the ACLU, and Enikia Ford Morthel, superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District in California. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP David Banks, chancellor of New York City Public Schools, testified at a House Education Committee hearing on antisemitism on Wednesday. He was joined by Karla Silvestre, president of the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland, Emerson Sykes, staff attorney with the ACLU, and Enikia Ford Morthel, superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District in California. Jacquelyn Martin/AP On Wednesday, Republican lawmakers expanded their fight over antisemitism in education, with mixed results. Members of the House Education Committee questioned leaders from three K-12 public school districts over the handling of recent incidents that some lawmakers say have left Jewish students feeling unwelcome and unsafe. Republicans, who control the House and called …

SNL Cold Open Centers on Columbia University’s Handling of Protests

SNL Cold Open Centers on Columbia University’s Handling of Protests

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Saturday Night Live‘s latest cold open centered on Columbia University’s handling of the pro-Palestinian protests on campus amid the Israel–Hamas war. During the sketch, Mikey Day, Kenan Thompson and Heidi Gardner played concerned parents of students participating in the protests. Last week, hundreds of demonstrators were arrested after the school’s president called the New York Police Department to help restore order on campus. Police cleared the university’s Hamilton Hall after protesters occupied the administration building earlier in the day. After being asked their thoughts on the protests, Gardner initially responded, “It’s been tough. Now, I’m all for free speech, but I don’t understand what they think they’re accomplishing and that’s really putting a strain on me and my daughter’s relationship.” Thompson later shared his thoughts: “Nothing makes me prouder than young people using their voices to fight for what they believe in.” However, once Michael Longfellow’s Ryan Aper expressed that his daughter must feel very supported by him when protesting, his tone completely changed. “Nah man, you bugging. Alexis Vanessa Roberts better have her butt …

A Judge Is Forcing Hawaii to Give Wildfire Investigation Documents to Lawyers Handling Lawsuits

A Judge Is Forcing Hawaii to Give Wildfire Investigation Documents to Lawyers Handling Lawsuits

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HONOLULU (AP) — A judge on Friday forced the Hawaii attorney general’s office to turn over to lawyers involved in the hundreds of lawsuits over last summer’s Maui wildfires all documents, interviews and data collected by the outside team hired to investigate the disaster. Attorneys representing plaintiffs suing over the August fires filed a motion last month asking a judge to compel the state provide them with the material gathered by the Fire Safety Research Institute, which was hired by the state to investigate. The state refused, saying disclosing the records would “jeopardize and hinder” the investigation. In court documents opposing the motion, the state called the request “premature, baseless and frivolous,” and asked a judge to order that attorneys fees be paid to the state for defending against the motion. Soon after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century ripped through the historic town of Lahaina and killed 101 people, Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez announced hiring outside investigators. Last month Lopez and representatives from the Fire Safety Research Institute released a …

Rabobank: Biden’s Dire Rating On His Handling Of The Economy Is Remarkable

Rabobank: Biden’s Dire Rating On His Handling Of The Economy Is Remarkable

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By Benjamin Picton, senior strategist at Rabobank The S Word Last week the data caught up with the public mood. Annualized US GDP for Q1 was +1.6%, well below the 2.5% consensus estimate and even below the most pessimistic estimate of +1.7% in the Bloomberg survey. Meanwhile, core PCE printed at 3.7%. Well up on the Q4 print of 2% and substantially above the consensus estimate of 3.4%. Lower growth and higher inflation has sparked conjecture that the United States is headed for – if not already experiencing – the S word: stagflation. The data generated plenty of excitement amongst the commentariat along those lines last week, but on Main Street the news that the economy is slowing – but prices aren’t – appears to have come as no surprise. The latest CNN poll puts Donald Trump six points clear of Joe Biden at 49-43, but the most telling result in the poll is respondent’s perceptions of Biden’s handling of the economy and inflation. On those points, only 34% and 29% of respondents respectively think …

Police handling of US driver who fled UK after crash left nurse unable to walk ‘not acceptable’ | UK News

Police handling of US driver who fled UK after crash left nurse unable to walk ‘not acceptable’ | UK News

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The police handling of the case of an American driver who fled the UK after a crash that left a nurse unable to walk was “not acceptable”. Isaac Calderon returned to the US after a collision in Herefordshire that left Elizabeth Donowho with two broken ankles and a fractured sternum. Ms Donowho complained that police had not done enough to keep the 22-year-old in the country. At first West Mercia police’s internal standards team disagreed, saying that there was never any reason to arrest him. Now, the Police and Crime Commissioner’s office has concluded that the force should have arrested the suspect – a move which should have kept him in the UK. Sky News has seen a letter written to Ms Donowho from Tony Morriss, deputy chief executive for the West Mercia police and crime commissioner, which states that he is “of the view that most reasonably minded people, if they knew the circumstances of this case, would find that the response of the force in this case was not acceptable”. It says: “Mr Calderon …

Columbia University president Minouche Shafik in hot water for handling of pro-Palestinian protests

Columbia University president Minouche Shafik in hot water for handling of pro-Palestinian protests

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As pro-Palestinian student protests at Columbia University continue, university president Minouche Shafik finds herself under fire from all sides as politicians, students and faculty all call for her to resign over her handling of the sit-ins. Columbia’s university senate is scheduled to meet on Friday to vote on a resolution that would express displeasure with her decision to summon police to arrest protesting students on campus. Shortly after the Israel-Hamas war entered its six month, pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University established an on-campus encampment on April 17 of approximately 50 tents, called the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, to put pressure on the elite Ivy League university to cut ties with Israeli academic institutions and divest from Israel. The encampment was forcibly dismantled the following day when Shafik called on the New York City Police Department to intervene, resulting in the arrests of more than 100 protesters on suspicion of criminal trespassing. Columbia also suspended students participating in the protest encampment. After these mass arrests, demonstrators quickly regrouped and other students across the United States started organising their own sit-ins, …

Muslim groups claim double standards in police handling of two high-profile stabbings in Sydney

Muslim groups claim double standards in police handling of two high-profile stabbings in Sydney

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NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — Muslim groups in Australia on Friday criticized the disparity in the police response to two stabbing attacks in Sydney this month, saying it had created a perception of a double standard and further alienated the country’s minority Muslim community. The Australian National Imams Council said an attack at a Bondi Junction shopping center was “quickly deemed a mental health issue” while the stabbing of a Christian bishop at a Sydney church two days later was “classified as a terrorist act almost immediately.” “The differing treatments of two recent violent incidents are stark,” the council’s spokesperson, Ramia Abdo Sultan, said in a statement with the Alliance of Australian Muslims and the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network. “Such disparities in response create a perception of a double standard in law enforcement and judicial processes,” she said. A 16-year-old boy is accused of repeatedly stabbing Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and a priest at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church on April 15, two days after the Bondi Junction attack, in which six people were killed …

Met’s handling of new evidence about Stephen Lawrence case to be reviewed | Doreen Lawrence

Met’s handling of new evidence about Stephen Lawrence case to be reviewed | Doreen Lawrence

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An independent police force will review the Metropolitan police’s handling of new evidence relating to the murder of Stephen Lawrence 30 years after his death, the mayor of London has said. It comes after the Met commissioner, Mark Rowley, apologised to Stephen’s mother, Doreen Lawrence, for not fulfilling a promise to answer questions stemming from a BBC investigation into the murder of the 18-year-old in 1993. The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said that the Lawrence family had been “let down” by the police and that Rowley would be asking a separate force to review the Met’s handling of “fresh evidence”. The BBC said Lady Lawrence was promised an explanation after the broadcaster named Matthew White as the sixth suspect in the case last year. A BBC investigation last year identified Matthew White as the sixth suspect in the case. Photograph: BBC Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a gang of racists in Eltham, south-east London, in April 1993 as he ran to catch a bus with his friend Duwayne Brooks. Only two of his killers …

Keeping the Peace: Handling Criticism From Your Housemates

Keeping the Peace: Handling Criticism From Your Housemates

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Source: leeloothefirst/Pexels Living with other people puts your personal habits on display. Your housemates see everything. From your kitchen dance moves to your late-night snack runs, your crying jags, and the towels you drop on the floor, they know how loud you snore and how often you clean the litter box. They know it all. There’s no shortage of material to critique. So, when your live-in partner, family member, or roommate criticizes your habits, it feels deeply personal. Naturally, our first instinct is to get defensive. But that leads to more drama and discord in the house. How do we keep the peace? Cue the DBT house rules: this five-part series explores skills from dialectical behavior therapy for maintaining a harmonious home. Let’s explore how getting curious is more effective than mounting a defense. DBT House Rule #2: Get Curious about the other person’s emotions and perspective. How is curiosity the cure? 1. History matters Curiosity is the key to understanding why your mom gets bent out of shape over how you fold fitted sheets …

Met chief apologises to Stephen Lawrence’s mother over handling of sixth suspect | Stephen Lawrence

Met chief apologises to Stephen Lawrence’s mother over handling of sixth suspect | Stephen Lawrence

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The Metropolitan police commissioner has apologised to the mother of Stephen Lawrence for not fulfilling a promise to explain why his force failed to properly handle evidence against one of the suspects in the teenager’s murder. A BBC investigation in 2023 identified Matthew White as the sixth suspect in the case, where only five had previously been known. The broadcaster said Doreen Lawrence had been promised answers to her questions about the way police handled the investigation. Despite initial correspondence with the deputy assistant commissioner Matt Ward, none has been given. The Met commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has now apologised, saying: “On top of the failures over the decades, this is totally unacceptable.” Stephen Lawrence was murdered in April 1993 by a racist gang in Eltham, south-east London, as he ran to catch a bus with his friend Duwayne Brooks. Only two of the 18-year-old’s killers – Gary Dobson and David Norris – have been brought to justice. The original investigation into his death was hampered by institutional racism in Scotland Yard and claims corrupt …